The Madras Institute of Development Studies has thanked the State government for making it the knowledge partner for focus block development programme. The State government had announced the launch of Focus Blocks Development Programme in its 2023-24 budget. The knowledge partner will actively support the State Planning Commission in formulating Block Development strategy papers. Institute director Suresh Babu said the …
The Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company started by late V.O. The book documents the late freedom fighter’s battle against the British maritime empire and also south India’s role in the country’s freedom struggle. “It will tell us all how so many people came together to establish ‘Swadeshi’ as their birthright.” In his remarks, Mr. Gandhi described that the book was about …
In 1986, when historian A.R. With economics-related studies taking pre-eminence at the MIDS, Mr. Venkatachalapathy says one would assume the institute’s library to stock up on works mostly related to economics. But what makes the MIDS library stand out is how well-curated and maintained it is, says Mr. Venkatachalapathy, now a professor at the institute. R. Murugan, the librarian at …
A quick stroll inside what was once economist Malcolm Adiseshiah’s pleasantly white and green bungalow, shows that homes can often become meccas for research. “We have books by colonial historians and writers like JT Wheeler, H Dodwell, Curator of the Madras Record Office and Henry Davidson Love. Murugan says that books like The Records of Fort St George by the …
Spring practices at Navy were a bit different this year. “We had to grind them pretty good.” It’s a new era of Navy football, and Newberry, a bearded Oklahoman, is the face of it. It’s beat Army, beat Air Force, win four games, we get the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy and go to a bowl game.” One of Navy’s biggest goals this …
